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This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and arguments for God's existence from the universe's life-supporting order and contingent existence.
Contents
Editorial Foreword
Kenneth A. BRYSON: Preface
Acknowledgments
ONE. Scientific Cosmology and the Big Bang
1.The Evolution of the Universe
2. Evidences for the Big Bang
3. Scientific Cosmological Agnosticism
TWO. Humanistic Naturalism
1. Family Traits of Humanistic Naturalism
2. How Scientific Is Humanistic Naturalism?
THREE. Steady State and Plasma Cosmologies
1. Steady State Cosmology
2. Critique of Steady State Cosmology
3. Plasma Cosmology and Eric Lerner's Critique of the Big Bang
4. Critique of Plasma Cosmology
FOUR. Antecedent Universe Cosmologies
1. Gamow's Infinite Squeeze/Bang/Rebound Universe
2. Critique of Gamow's Cosmology
3. Oscillation Cosmology
4. Critique of Oscillation Cosmology
FIVE. Big Fizz and Big Divide Quantum Cosmologies
1. Big Fizz Quantum Cosmology
2. Big Divide Many Worlds Cosmology
3. Critique of World-Ensemble Cosmologies
SIX. Quantum Observership Cosmology
1. Observers Create the Universe
2. Critique of Quantum Observership
SEVEN. Big Accident Quantum Cosmology
1. The Universe as a Big Accident
2. Critique of Big Accident Quantum Cosmology
EIGHT. Atheistic Anthropic Cosmology
1. The Anthropic Principle and Cosmic Purpose Without God
2. The Weak and Strong Anthropic Principles
3. Critique of Infinite World-Ensemble Teleology
NINE. The Final Anthropic Principle
1.The Omega Point as the Purpose of the Universe
2. Critique of the Final Anthropic Principle
TEN. Concepts of God's Nature and Existence
1.Two Concepts of God's Nature: Classical and Process Theology
2. Conceiving of God's Existence
3. Critique of Process Theology
ELEVEN. The Biopic Teleological Argument
1. God's Purpose for the Universe and Cosmic Teleology
2. Critique and Defense of the Biopic Teleological Argument
TWELVE. Theism and Cosmic Contingency
1. A Cosmological Argument from Contingency
2. Critique and Defense of the Cosmological Argument from Contingency
Notes
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
